Motivational Quotes

Fear

Action conquers fear.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Fear

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Keynes, John Maynard

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He without fear is king of the world.

Eddison, E. E.

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Downes, Donald

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Ching Ning Chu

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Churchill, Winston

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.